Full Description
As the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate challenges require new ways of thinking about how humans can live better with the world. This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making.
Exploring the ways children can learn with weather, this book for researchers and advanced students, works with the pedagogical potential in children's relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.
Contents
Part 1: A Weather Learning Project. 1. Introduction. 2. Young children and environmental education. Part 2: Methods - Thinking, moving and writing with weather. 3. Thinking with weather. 4. Walking with weather. 5. Writing small weather stories. Part 3: Relations - Weathering with more-than-human worlds. 6. Bodies, atmospheres and affects. 7. Multi-species weather encounters. 8. Earth and deep weather times. Part 4: Responses - Learning and speculating in a climate change era. 9. Weather learning. 10. Conclusion: An invitation to weather together.
